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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape crashes X!
Date: 26 Oct 1996 21:01:19 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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Message-ID: <54umqf$7qa@bofh.noc.best.net>
References: <32704F9E.1781@ibm.net> <54rltm$el@bofh.noc.best.net> <54s87c$bgr@uuneo.neosoft.com>
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In article <54s87c$bgr@uuneo.neosoft.com>,
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote:
>In article <54rltm$el@bofh.noc.best.net>,
>Ron Echeverri <rone@bofh.noc.best.net> wrote:
>>In article <32704F9E.1781@ibm.net>, Jeff Genender <jgenend@ibm.net> wrote:
>>>I am wondering if anyone has seen a similar problem as me on FreeBSD
>>>2.1.5R. I have my X Windows configured nicely and runs most
>>>applicatations as expected. The only problem I have is with Netscape
>>>3.0 (BSDI binary). When I run it for a while (actually this will happen
>>>at any random time - 2 minutes, 5 minutes - who knows) The system locks
>>>solid. I cannot even get a telnet connection. There is no core dump
>>>and I have to reboot the system (uggh) with the reset key or repower the
>>>system.
>>I'm betting you're running out of swap space. How much RAM and swap
>>space do you have on your machine? I had to add 40MB of swap just to
>>run Netscape 2.
>Well, that *could* have something to do with it. Insufficient swap,
>especially for an app that's as memory-hungry as Netscape. Yes.
>I have 24 megs of RAM, and setup my swap file as roughly 2x that.
I had 16MB RAM and about 37MB swap and it was not enough for Netscape
2. Now i have 24MB RAM and about 100MB swap :) just in case. Right
now, running Netscape 3, emacs 19.34 in server mode, 15 xterms (many
of them running ssh), and xcalendar, xbiff, xclock, xmix, xclipboard
and fvwm 1.24r (did i mention inn?)...
(64) > swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/wd0s2b 103824 76536 27224 74% Interleaved
/dev/wd1s1b 16384 16204 116 99% Interleaved
Total 120080 92740 27340 77%
For what that's worth.
>No, I think it's as John said; he needs to try the x86-unknown-bsd
>version.
As far as i know, the 386-unknown-bsd version IS the BSDI version.
rone
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